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  • Scintillation properties of the Gd3Al2Ga3O12 : Ce crystal
  • Hye-Lim Kima, Hong-Joo Kima,*, Eun-Jung Janga, Won-Guen Leeb, Moon-Kwang Kib, Heun-Duk Kimb, Gu-Sik Junb and Vladimir Kochurikhinc
  • a Department of Physics, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 702-701, Korea b TPS CO. Daegu 704-900, Korea c General Physics Institute, Moscow 119991, Russia
Abstract
We investigated luminescence and scintillation properties of the Gd3Al2Ga3O12 : Ce (GAGG) crystal grown in TPS(Total Polishing Solution) Co.. The GAGG crystal has the highest light yield among oxide crystal at room temperature and fast decay time for the detection of radioactivity and in nuclear and particle physics experiments and medical imaging. The scintillation properties of the GAGG crystal were studied by comparing the GAGG crystals grown by two companies. We measured an X-ray induced emission spectra, an energy resolution, an absolute light yield and a decay time. A pulse shape discrimination capability for a and g-ray was also demonstrated.

Keywords: GAGG, Crystal scintillator, Energy resolution, Czochralski, Decay time, Luminescence.

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  • 2015; 16(1): 124-128

    Published on Feb 28, 2015